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Offline takefive

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Two hickory backed recurves
« on: July 06, 2014, 08:12:00 PM »
Here are the finished pics of the recurves I've been working on.  Both are hickory backed with osage belly and an elm core lam.  On the top one (curly maple handle), the elm lam is full length.  Bottom one (walnut handle), I made the core lam 46" and tapered it to zero.
They're both around 63" NTN and 45# @ 27".  One is a little shorter and a few pounds heavier DW.  I forget which one.   :)
I made the maple handled one first and liked it so much that I decided to try another one.  Thanks for looking!

 

 

 

 

 
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2014, 08:21:00 PM »
I don't have a current f/d shot of them.  Still working on that with my daughter/photographer.  Hopefully by next weekend.
Here's one at final tiller on the first one.

 

And the second one.  I did more scraping on a stubborn area on the top limb since then.

 
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2014, 09:10:00 PM »
Beautiful
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2014, 09:28:00 PM »
Nice bows
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2014, 09:44:00 PM »
Very nice indeed, two excellent bows, and very nice to look at.
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2014, 10:48:00 PM »
Very nice looking bows.
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2014, 11:24:00 PM »
Those looks great!  Good job.  Yeah, I would've made another one, too.
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2014, 11:50:00 PM »
Very cool!
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2014, 12:35:00 AM »
Nice pair of bows!
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2014, 12:37:00 AM »
Thanks guys!
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2014, 01:04:00 AM »
Great looking bows!
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2014, 07:22:00 AM »
Beautiful work.
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2014, 11:39:00 AM »
Very classy!  Nice work all around.  :)
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2014, 11:44:00 AM »
Very nice bend on those, they look like sweet shooters.
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2014, 11:56:00 AM »
Good looking pair of twins you made there five!!
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2014, 01:02:00 PM »
Thanks again; it's much appreciated    :)
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2014, 06:10:00 PM »
Great looking bows.
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Re: Two hickory backed recurves
« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2014, 12:40:00 AM »
real nice looking bows for sure
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